On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 09:09:33AM +0200, Kristian Peters wrote: > "krishnan charumathi" <coolcharu@hotmail.com> wrote: > > When I looked into my /var/log/messages file I see many kernel log messages. > > But, with that I also see messgaes that just say "--MARK--" (quotes are for > > clarification and not part of the message). What does this mean??where does > > this come from?? Could someone explain this?? > Add "-m 0" to your syslog init-script. The --MARK-- will vanish then. However they seem guite useful to me. You can see the rough time that passed since some message at first glance. Unfortunately I can't see how to enable them for specific logs only (eg having them on /dev/tty12 and not in log files). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/